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compressedgas
So another WIM like format?
mrflop
Not exactly, if WIM is a complete snapshot of a Windows disk ready to be restored on an identical machine, .ptar is a self-contained capsule holding successive, encrypted, deduplicated, and verifiable versions of any dataset, portable and usable across different environments.
Bowes-Lyon
Great work! What I feel skeptical about, is the fact that plakar is not self-contained, but has a dependency. That gives me a pause. What I’d love to see is one single binary that I can just install and use.
poolpOrg
Author here, plakar is a single binary, unsure I understand what it is you’d prefer, a ptar specific executable?
crsc
A truly fascinating article. Welcome to the 21st century. :-)
johng
This is really neat... plakar itself looks like an awesome backup tool. We use Borg now but I'll be testing this out.